Can I Allocate a specitic memory address using pointers in c++ ?
For example: Allocate This memory address 25D4C3FA and put 4 in it.
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Can I Allocate a specitic memory address using pointers in c++ ?
For example: Allocate This memory address 25D4C3FA and put 4 in it.
Allocating a specific address in your process’s address space is a bit tricky and platform-specific. On Unix systems,
mmap()is probably the closest you’re going to get. The Windows equivalent isVirtualAlloc(). There are, of course, no guarantees since the address might already be in use.Writing to a specific address is trivial:
I assume you have good reasons to want to do that.